May 15
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Midway through Top Gun, the highest-grossing movie of 1986, there’s a scene where the film briefly abandons all…
Apr 21
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With everything going on right now in the world, you could be forgiven for missing today’s perhaps most important…
Dec 16 2019
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Tom Cruise, continuing to defy the inevitabilities of age and gravity, is back as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the new…
Jul 30 2019
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Kelly McGillis’ Charlie Blackwood pushed Maverick’s heartbeat into the danger zone in Top Gun, but don’t expect the…
Jun 11 2019
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Tom Skerritt has starred in some of the most iconic movies ever made—M*A*S*H, Alien, Steel Magnolias, Top Gun. He…
Oct 31 2018
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Nobody gets Tom Cruise better than screenwriter and director Christopher McQuarrie, at least to the extent that…
Jul 3 2018
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Actors have an annoying habit of aging, which can cause problems when Hollywood decides to go back and make sequels…
Jun 7 2018
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Suggesting that he, himself, might be rocketing recklessly forward into some kind of “zone of danger,” Kenny Loggins…
Jun 6 2018
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It’s a truth universally acknowledged—to paraphrase Jane Austen on the topic of ’80s action blockbusters—that any…
May 31 2018
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It was just over a year ago that Tom Cruise insisted a sequel to his classic 1986 exercise in homoeroticism and Val…
Aug 16 2017
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Film has been used as a vehicle to increase the popularity of particular songs as far back as the black-and-white…
Jun 30 2017
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Notify Kenny Loggins and get the volleyball nets ready: The Tom Cruise-starring Top Gun sequel, Maverick, has…
Jun 5 2017
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Tom Cruise is continuing to use his press tour for The Mummy to talk about the sequel to Top Gun that’s apparently…
May 24 2017
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It looks like Tom Cruise wasn’t kidding when he revealed that Top…
Nov 1 2016
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If you’ve been feeling nostalgic for the days of elementary school music class, when you and a bunch of other kids…
Oct 27 2016
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In an effort to both serve our readers and help support The A.V. Club, we are going to post daily links to deals and…
May 6 2016
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This week’s question is from Senior Editor Marah Eakin:
Oct 13 2015
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“Once I open the vault,” Jerry Seinfeld once said, “it ceases to be a vault.” Such quandaries do not seem to be an…
Jun 5 2015
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This week’s question comes from staff writer Alex McCown: